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What contributes to Kelpler’s discovery That the earths orbit was actually an eclipse

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Kepler had discovered that the orbit of Mars could not be a circle but rather some kind of oval shape.Kepler postulated the idea of an ellipse as the shape of the orbit. He then used the elliptical model to generate a table of planetary positions, and tried to make it look as if he had arrived at these results by triangulation.

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